I'm running ubuntu hardy on a Dell D630 with a 2.6.24-24 kernel
Last night, following a thread I installed linux-backports-modules-hardy using apt-get install
(I was hoping that this would fix the random freezes that seem to happen regularly to
everybody.)
Since then I've had problems with wireless connectivity
- I can ping yahoo.com successfully
64 bytes from b1.
www.vip.sp1.yahoo.com (209.131.36.159): icmp_seq=794 ttl=56 time=11.3 ms
- but I can't connect to the internet, i.e. firefox won't load any url's, or if
it does load them, takes forever to do so. Same problem with opera
- miraculously the problem went away this morning: I booted an older kernel, everything was fine,
then went back to the newest kernel, and everything continued to work fine
- but this evening the same problem is back. Booting in recovery mode, or with an older kernel, hasn't helped
- on my wife's Dell D630, also running hardy, the internet works perfectly, ruling
out a problem with the wireless connection
- I removed linux-backports-modules-hardy using apt-get remove, but it didn't help.
since this install was the only thing that changed since yesterday morning, when
the wireless connection worked fine, I wonder if it's not fully removed.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.Here are some configuration details.
uname -a
Linux D630 2.6.24-24-generic #1 SMP Wed Apr 15 15:11:35 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
lshw -C network
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN Network Connection
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0c:00.0
logical name: wmaster0
version: 61
serial: 00:1f:3b:ca:f7:01
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list logical ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlagn ip=192.168.2.101 latency=0 module=iwl4965 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abgn
ifconfig -a
eth4 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1c:23:4f:84:84
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:17
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:183 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:183 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:21783 (21.2 KB) TX bytes:21783 (21.2 KB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1f:3b:ca:f7:01
inet addr:192.168.2.101 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21f:3bff:feca:f701/64 Scope:Link
RX packets:3462 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3530 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:380728 (371.8 KB) TX bytes:387737 (378.6 KB)
wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-1F-3B-CA-F7-01-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3462 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
I wondered if I could completely uninstall my wireless connection, and reinstall, but
have no idea how to do this.
